Ideas of the City in Asian Settings / / ed. by Henco Bekkering, Adèle Esposito, Charles Goldblum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Bekkering, Henco,; Chowdhury, Sayandeb,; Esposito, Adèle,; Ghosh, Anindita,; Goldblum, Charles,; Hahn, Johanna,; Morley, Ian,; Ng, Kenny K.K.,; Schenk, Hans,; Seekins, Donald M.,; Tjoa, Pawda F.,; Weng, Hew Wai,; Yang, Chamee,; Zandonai, Sheyla S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bekkering, Henco,; Esposito, Adèle,; Goldblum, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Cities ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 114 halftones

This book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective. It does so by using multiple sources, objects (architecture, planning, spaces and practices), and methods of inquiry. At a time when intense dynamics...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• 1. Introduction
• Part 1. Images and Symbols
• 2. The Spectral Coloniality of Calcutta's Ochterlony
• 3. 'Centering' the City
• 4. Transitions
• 5. Global Dynamics and Tropes of Place
• Part 2. Tales of the City
• 6. A City for All
• 7. A World Garden City in the New Millennium
• 8. Delhi Incognita
• Part 3. Political and Urban Discourses
• 9. The Physical Manifestation of Political Ideologies in Ali Sadikin's Jakarta (1966-1977)
• 10. Religious Gentrification: Islam and the Remaking of Urban Place in Jakarta
• 11. Invisible Technologies and Loud Narratives
• 12. Changing ideas of Hanoi
• 13. Conclusion
• Index